Just a day after being sued by the Las Vegas-based airline over an illegal strike, Teamsters Local 1224, which represents Allegiant's pilots and currently in negotiations with the airline for a new contract, has published a letter to passengers warning them about "persistent mechanical problems."

It's one thing to have your flight delayed for a long time. At least you can grab some food or drinks and hang out. But if there's nobody working at those restaurants and bars, you're in for a miserable day — and that's what's currently happening at San Francisco International Airport this morning.

In a land where labor unions strike more often than matches, the two French Air Traffic Controllers unions (SNCTA and Unsa-ICNA) have voted to stage a six-day strike next week between June 24th and 29th.

A spokesperson for the Canadian Auto Workers is claiming the union and General Motors have reached a tentative agreement on terms for a new contract after pulling a bargaining all-nighter. We totally remember those nights from our time in school. We're just wondering whether they used Red Bull or those…

A wide swath of small trucking companies and independent truckers everywhere will be staging a protest of sorts today. Truckers will be slowing their rigs down and parking them as a protest against both fuel prices and perceived industry unfairness. They're mad as hell about the meteoric rise in the price of diesel…

But we digress, it seems the Malibu may be the next threatened product in the General's stable. Although American Axle doesn't actually provide any parts for the better-than-average selling sedan, they apparently do supply parts to other suppliers supplying parts — specifically, as Automotive News is reporting, rear…

Reuters is reporting General Motors will be idling its Hamtramck Assembly plant on Monday as a result of the ongoing strike at American Axle. The Detroit area plant currently builds the Cadillac DTS and Buick Lucerne and joins 30 other plants affected by the parts shortages. Though shuttering plants is never good…

Well, well, well. Looks like I managed to get myself nominated for Commenter of the Day. But, well, we can't have that. There were also a bevy of you who nearly pinned it down with your awesome dragon imagery vis-a-vis the 300 SL's "Speed Holes." Still though, no dice, as it is Commenter of the Day (singular) and we…

Just two weeks after the UAW organized a national strike on GM, the union has turned its collective-bargaining nuke on Chrysler's manufacturing operations. The UAW's set a deadline, giving Chrysler until 11 am Wednesday to finalize contract negotiations. But the deadline doesn't really mean a strike is inevitable.…

You should know that the General's Service & Parts Operations (SPO) team has a way to handle emergency orders and although it's not in their nature to be mysterious, GM can't tell you how and they can't tell you why. Full release after the jump.

It's Strike Week! Kinda like Shark Week only with fewer commercials. And sharks. According to the pointy heads, GM is poised to survive a short strike. If Big Ron Gettelfinger and his 73,000 friends are just putting on a show and flexing their collective muscles to let the General know they can, the lights should stay…

We've been talking to a few PR folks from the General today — trying to make heads or tails of the impact of the UAW's decision to hit the picket lines against GM. And each one of them told me they didn't believe the UAW had actually gone on strike and that it was some kind of a mistake or something. The cacophony…

For the first time since 1998, UAW workers are striking against General Motors. After 20 days of yakking, the 11:00 am (EST) strike deadline passed.and the workers have walked out. Why? GM (and Ford and ChryslerCerebus) are desperate to unload their massive (some might argue crippling) health care costs. The UAW…

The General's issued a release a few minutes ago on the UAW strike that began at 11:00 AM today. It's short and it's sweet and it doesn't say a whole lot. Here's the full scoop straight from the General's mouth right below the jump:

We knew this was going to happen. An embattled automaker that's also the nation's largest and a union fed up with the lies coming from the corporate office ready to shut the mutha down! Only wrinkle — who'd have thunk the country'd be South Korea and the company would be Hyundai. Unionized workers at South Korea's…